The dang thing won't run on my computer, says my video card is not on the approved list :(
How do you import the results to flash?

Posted by: Roy on October 2, 2007 11:16 AM

I know it's the next step in Flash evolution, and was bound to come eventually, but I can't help feeling like it's a direct response to either Microsoft's Silverlight (WPF/E), or Processing for Java.

It currently uses the "Hydra" language, which is more GLSL-based, than ECMAScript 4-based. I don't know if yet another language is planned on being shoehorned into the Flash IDE (currently AS1, AS2, AS3, E4X, and JS), or if they plan on adding more packages to AS3. If the former is the case, then this is a move that's hard for me to get behind.

That being said, I'm looking forward to what gets produced once the Flash community at large acquaints itself with pixel shaders and native filters.